Ubuntu users who want to work with office documents need a desktop app installed on their system. WPS Office for Linux is a desktop productivity suite for working with office documents on Ubuntu. I’ll show you how to install WPS from the official Deb package and check that the package is installed and the app
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To manage a torrent transfer on Linux, you need software that can open a torrent file or magnet link. Transmission is a Linux client for managing those transfers. I’ll show you how to choose and install Transmission for desktop use or as a background service, then explain when to stop that service before changing its
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Preparing a Linux machine for monitoring means setting up a way for the monitoring system to request its status. SNMP lets a monitoring manager make those requests through an agent running on the host. This article explains what the Linux agent does and shows how to install and configure it for read-only queries on Debian
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When you’re building an API, you need a way to send requests and check what the service returns. Insomnia is a desktop API client that sends requests to a service and displays its responses. This article shows how to install Insomnia on Ubuntu with Snap and send a test request. TL;DR: Install Insomnia on Ubuntu
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An AppImage arrives as a single file, and it runs without touching your package manager. Marking it executable and starting it takes three commands. Everything a normal install does for you stays your job, which is why a fresh AppImage so often needs a missing system library, a mount helper, or a menu entry added
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Vim search and replace runs on a handful of commands. I re-ran every command in this guide on Vim 9.1 against a scratch file, so what you read here is what Vim actually does. You start by finding text, then replace it on one line, across a range, or through the whole file, adding confirmation,
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World of Warcraft does not have a native Linux launcher, so you install Blizzard Battle.net in a Wine prefix and install WoW from Battle.net. Lutris supplies the launcher setup and runner management, while Battle.net still handles your Blizzard sign-in, game files, and updates. Check the graphics stack before installing WoW Battle.net needs current Vulkan-capable graphics
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Use reset when a program leaves your Linux terminal unreadable or input behaves oddly. A clean screen and a broken Bash startup file need different fixes. Choose the command that matches the problem A terminal emulator keeps screen content, terminal modes, and a scrollback buffer. Your shell configuration and command history live elsewhere, so resetting
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Two commands answer almost every storage question on a Linux box. lsblk shows the shape of your storage: which disks exist, how they are partitioned, and where each partition is mounted. blkid reads the filesystem metadata itself and prints the UUID, label, and filesystem type you need when editing /etc/fstab or writing udev rules. The
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Typing every variable name in full gets old fast, even in an editor as efficient as Vim. CoC, short for Conquer of Completion, is a Language Server Protocol (LSP) client that brings IDE-style autocompletion to Vim and Neovim through a separate Node.js process. The steps below install it with the vim-plug plugin manager, add language
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